Estimate: | £100 - £150 |
WHEATLEY, Charles (1686-1742). The Church of England Man's Companion; or a Rational Illustration of the Harmony, Excellency, and Usefulness of the Book of Common Prayer ... To which is prefix'd an Introductory Discourse, shewing the Lawfulness and Necessity of a National Precomposed Liturgy ... The Second Edition with large Additions. Oxford. Printed at the Theatre, 1714. 8vo (197 x 120mm). Elaborate engraved frontispiece, title within double-rule border, one-page of publisher's advertisements at the end (crisp and clean throughout). Contemporary panelled calf (quite heavily rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: old illegible signature on front free endpaper; "Peter Wybrank ... bought of Mr Lawrence ... 1715" (inscription on front free endpaper). With William Sherlock's A Practical Discourse concerning Death ... The Ninth Edition (London, 1696, contemporary calf, joints split, rather worn). (2)